The networking software firm, which employs over 120 staff at its Irish headquarters in Dublin, said that net revenues totalled USD239 million versus USD233 million for the second fiscal quarter of 2006.
The company reported USD19 million in revenue from Linux Platform products, up 83 percent year-on-year, and USD29 million of invoicing, up 114 percent compared to the same three-month period last year.
Novell added that revenue from Identity and Access Management was USD23 million, up 5 percent year-over-year, while revenue from Systems and Resource Management fell 4 percent to USD32 million. Revenue from Novell's Workgroup business unit also declined 4 percent from the year ago period to USD84 million.
"We were pleased with the overall results this quarter. We saw continued strength in our Linux business, improvement in our Identity business and better-than-expected results in Workgroup. Additionally, we benefited from the impact of cost control measures," said Ron Hovsepian, president and CEO of Novell.
Hovsepian, who took over as head honcho at Novell last June after the ousting of former CEO, Jack Messman, added that he believed the business was moving in the right direction and was on track to achieve its fiscal 2007 exit rate operating margin target, of between 5 percent and 7 percent.
Looking ahead, Novell said that for the full fiscal year 2007 net revenue is expected to be between USD925 million and USD955 million.
In related news, the Free Software Foundation which owns rights to some of the code behind Linux software has confirmed that it doesn't intend to carry out its threat to punish Novell over its controversial link-up with Microsoft.
The foundation had been considering restricting access to components of Linux that it held the copyright with following the firm's announcement that it was cuddling up to Microsoft.
Under the arrangement, which was announced in November, Microsoft will officially recommend Novell's Suse Linux Enterprise for customers who want to run both Windows and Linux.
Novell's Irish arm, which is based out in Sandyford, carries out a number of functions on behalf of Novell EMEA, including software localisation, manufacturing, distribution, financial control, treasury and the sales operation for Irish customers and partners.
